Sprinkler top for containers



April 29, 1930. c. P. cooK SPRINKLER TOP FOR CONTAINERS Filed Oct. 20. 1927 INVENTOR BY M '1 ATTORNEQ Patented Apr. zo, 1930 UNITO ST CLARENCE IP. COOK, OF 'WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SCOV'ILL MANU- if' FACTURING COMIPANY, OF WATER-BURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CON- NECTIC'UT SPRINKLER TOP FOR CONTAINRSk Application mee october 20,1927. serial No. 227,379. Y

This invention relates to certain improvements in sprinkler tops for bottles for perfume and the like.

In dispensing certain liquid materials, as

perfume, it is desirable that a top should be provided for the perfume container, usually a bottle, by which a small amount of perfume, as a drop, may be dispensed, and certain sprinkler top constructions have been devised for doing this. It is desirable under some circumstances, however, that the whole closure for the bottle should be readily removable so that a larger amount of the liquid material may be dispensed where desired.

It is the particular object of the present invention to provide a closure for such bottles or the like which includes a cork and a sprink- 'ler top so associated with the cork that the cork and top as a whole may be removed from the bottle, or the sprinkler top may be operated to dispense liquid from the bottle without removing the cork.

Avfurther object of the invention is to produce such a construction which can be cheaply made and of few parts so that the closure can be readily assembled, and which may be replaced and removed as a whole from the bottle or other container.

With these and other objects not specically referred to in view, the invention Vconsists in certain novel parts, arrangements and combinations which will be described in connectionwith the accompanying drawings and the novel features pointed out in the claim hereunto annexed.

In these drawings, v

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bottle showing the closure in place;

Figure 2 is a sectional view of the closure, the parts being shown in closed position;

Figure 3 is a similar view showing the parts in open or sprinkler position;

Figure 4 is a modified form of closure which may be employed under some circumstances, and

Figure 5 is a sectional.l view of the construction shown in Figure 4.

Referring now to these drawings, a container 1, shown in the form of a conventional bottle, is closed by the closure indicated generally by the numeral 2. This closure will include a cork 3 and a sprinkler mechanism by which a small amount of liquid may be dispensed from thel bottle. lWhile this sprinklermechanism may be varied widely in construction, a convenient one is that shown in Vwhich the cork is provided with a large recess 4 andk a smaller recess 5 opening into, the recess 4, the recess 4 opening M through the top of the cork. Mounted to move in this recess is a plug 6 havin side channels, one of whichvis indicated at this plugV terminating in an vouter knobn 8, by

which` the plug may be manipulated for dis- 4 pensingv purposes. Thelower end of the plug is formed with a solid projection 9, which normally extends through and closes the recess 5 in the cork. lThe lower end of the plug is formed with a skirt 10 which limits themovement of the plug as hereinafter referred to.

` Y The plug is heldin position by a capll,

gages the under side of the neck and prevents further outward movement of the plug. This movement of the plug, however, withdraws the projection 9 from the recess 5 and permits excess of liquid to the recess 4, from which it escapes through the channel 7 when the parts are in the position shown in VFigure 3.

The cap is associated with the cork so that the cork, cap, and plunger may be withdrawn as a whole from the'bottle, and the means employed for so associating the parts are lsuch as not to weaken the cork. As shown, referring first to Figure 2, the cap is provided with a skirt 14 which extends down over the top edge of the cork and engages the side walls of the cork for a considerable distance below the top. In associating the parts, the lower edge of this skirt is bent or spun into engagement with the walls of the cork, the cork being compressed at that point, as shown Y at l5 in Figures 2 and 3, This skirt 14 extends peripherally around the cork, so that a very snug engagement of the skirt and cork is effected without in any way weakening the cork, and the Cork and sprinkler mechanisms 5 may be removed as a whole from the bottle.

If desired, the eonstruetionshown in Figure 4 may be employed instead of that shown in Figure 2. In this construction the edge of the skirt 14 is slightly crimped, as indi.

10 cated at 16, and' pressed into engagement with the side walls of the cork, as indicated in Figure 5.' This construction also provides a rm engagement between the cap andthe cork, so

that the cork and cap may he removed as a 15 whole from the bottle when it is desired to have a yfull pouring opening.

While the invention has 'been shown and describedA in its preferred forms, it will be understood that various changes may be zo Vmade inthe shape and Character of the container and in the sprinkler mechanism shown without departing from the inventionv as de- .ned in the. appended Claim,-

o What I cla-.ilu is:

,il dispensing device of the eharacterdescribed, a bottle 'or the like and a stopper therefor, said stopper being of cork or like material, and having associated therewith a sprinkler deviceby lwhich a relatively small 30 lamount of the lliquid contents .0f the Ybottle may be distributed through the ,Cork when in position .on the bottle, means for securing the sprinkler device to the cork., said-cork and a-ssociated sprinkler device being freely remov- Yif fable from the bottle andv replaceable thereon o as a Whole without injury to the cork, so that a Arelatively large amount of the liquid, conten-ts of the bottle een be distributed through the bottle neck. Y Y

4p In testimony whereof, I havehereullto set m; handP Y CLARENCE P. Coon. 

